The suspension of La Provence‘s editorial director has alerted us. Just like the crisis at Le Journal du Dimanche – or that at Les Echos, which has now been going on for almost a year – had before it. Attacks on editorial independence have become a recurring event. Each time, consciences have woked up, and then they’ve gone back to sleep, yet nothing has changed.
We are concerned about the future, given the explanations given on March 19 to the elected members of the Altice group’s social and economic committee (CSE) by Rodolphe Saadé, the new owner of the BFM-TV and RMC news channels. How could anyone not be alarmed at hearing Saadé say, on that occasion, that he would “not react well” and would “make it known” if a scandal concerning his group, CMA CGM, were to be revealed in a media outlet of which he was a shareholder, adding that in his view, while…
